Down Beat (p.78) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Essential to his appeal on GENTLE STORM is a knack for retooling familiar tunes in unexpected ways, as he does with a bracing version of Leon Russell's 'This Masquerade'..."

JazzTimes (p.60) - "This is an album on which Braden makes the neo-traditionalist case that the music he has studied and loved remains viable, and that a younger musician can still find new things to say with it."